Dean and Jackson

Here is a picture from yesterday of Dean and his friend Jackson. We had Jackson and his mom Missy over yesterday. I know Missy from our days in Boston when our husbands were at Harvard Business school together. Missy and her husband also went to Notre Dame with Kevin. Now they live in San Francisco. This is the only picture I could get of the two boys looking at the camera at the same time. Most likely they will be going to college together which would be so fun. Jackson can walk so he ran around the yard and the house while they were visiting. I got to see what I'll be doing in probably a couple of weeks time when I'm chasing Dean around when he's walking. He's taken his first steps, but only a couple at a time. For now he's just walking around with his train and walker. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he's walking on his own. Dean was really shy with Missy all day yesterday until she had to leave and then he gave her a sweet hug good-bye. It was so cute! I think she won him over when she chased him around the kitchen and he was giggling. Dean was fast asleep once they left as he never took a morning nap so he was so exhausted. I've just started playing with Dean in the backyard as it is a little cooler out and we have the pool fence up so it is safe. He crawls real slow on the grass as I don't think he likes the feel of it. I wish we had a swing set for him as he loves the swings so much and it's kind of annoying to have to drive to the park to get him on the swings for 10 minutes. We went to a playgroup on Monday and it was so overwhelming...there must have been 40 people there (mom's and kids). Dean couldn't do much as we were all on the cement and sandbox area. All of the toddlers were playing in the sand. I think Dean was a bit bored. I didn't want him eating sand so I kept him out of it. The playgroup meets 2-3 times per week so we'll see which one we can go to next.